Let's see if I can explain this is short form, and allow you to see the whole picture.

I have a little boy who will be 2 next week. He's SUPER, DUPER, UBER shy. I've never seen anything like it. I have a 2.5 year old who is really shy too, but he's opened up to me pretty quickly and seems to trust me, which is great! But this little boy is SO SO SO shy! He's opened up with the kids pretty well, and even my husband. It seems to depend on his mood, too. Sometimes he comes over to me and smiles and says things to me, and other times he just walks over and stares at me. Seriously. He just walks over, stands in front of me, bows his head and looks at me with his eyes up. It creeps me out! LOL. He's starting to cry when his dad drops him off, and I think it's because I've had to start seriously disciplining him. I was a little lax because he'd only been here a short time and he was so shy, but I had to start. He climbs out of his playpen and he's mean to the other kids sometimes.

When we play games, he just stares at me. I tried to teach everyone Sleeping Bunnies, and when I showed him how to lie on the ground, he started crying.

Maybe because I'm disciplining him, he doesn't trust me anymore? I don't know. But I don't know what to do about it. When we play games, he looks like he wants to kill himself. I know that sounds dramatic, but I'm not even kidding. He gets this really sad face, like he's uber uncomfortable and wants to crawl in a dark hole. I have a really hard time with it. I mean, shy is one thing, but this seems like soemthing else. His parents say he talks a lot at home, but he barely says anything here. He doesn't laugh often, or smile. I really have to work for it. When I ask him to say something, he just bows his head and stares at me. I've started getting him to say he's sorry when he hurts people, cause dad says he'll do it at home, but when I ask him to say it, it's like he doesn't understand what I'm saying. Then I'll say something like "Do you want to have lunch?" And he goes "Lunch?" So I tell him to apologize and we can go have lunch. But he WON'T say it. It's so strange.

Sorry, I meant to make this short. Has anyone dealt with something like this before? What do you think it could be? Could it be just that he's not comfortable? Maybe he doesn't like it here? Maybe he's just ridiculously shy? I don't know!